So Tuesday through Friday.5 (meaning part of Saturday).
I'm going to be doing a presentation with Sarah on Tuesday for our entire organization. (Holy holy holy cow). I'm freaking out more and more as the time gets closer. That's why I'm spending part of today getting things ready though it is a weekend. I want to finish the slideshow and the document I wrote to be more ready that I was.
I've had some problems with the internet at work, but bringing my laptop and working from the slower desktop and the laptop at the same time is helping. So now I have all the documents here, for better or for worse. I may be developing a problem with work... ie I'm a chronic overachiever and find happiness/purpose/identity in working. Hmm.
So yeah I've started running more which feels good, but I'm eating far too many carbs. I feel like I drink tea and eat toast for 90% of my meals. Especially after last week's eating of an invertebrate, I've become very wary of fresh food and only ate something unprocessed on Thursday, when I had an AMAZING salad with chickpeas, hazelnuts, feta and spinach at Cafe Bar Deli (new fav restaurant). Every time I think of eating fresh food I imagine that freaking worm and I get the heaves.
I need to say one more time how much I LOVE love love Nutella. Yes, they have it in the States, but I've never had it or loved it until now. Toast will never be the same.
I can't believe I've written this much about food.
Moving on to non-dietary subjects, I saw Inception with Jimmy on Wednesday and it was fantastic! I have to see it again because everyone has a theory. I almost think watching it with a notebook to catalog the details would help. Or maybe I could just chalk it up to being entertainment and let it be. It is just a movie, a great one, but only entertainment.
Lets see, Thursday I went to dinner at Cafe Bar Deli with Kels and Helene, then came back here and chilled with the gals who went to London this weekend, chatting it up in our living room. Then last night Jimmy came over and I made him dinner while we talked. It's so fun to talk to someone who is Irish without the worry of being judged and just ask questions about what you see and what it means. For instance, there are signs for "ramps" everywhere, and I've been very confused. I see no ramps. But ramps are speed bumps and yes, those are everywhere.
Or bigger stuff, like the class system. In the United States the class system seems to be more defined on terms of race and ethnicity, so it's easy to distinguish where a person fits. But here, with so many light skinned people, you can't tell based on color. It seems more common for people to talk in slurs about people's class and there are so many categories for these people to fit into, words rarely overlapping but truly capturing where that person is.
In the United States these categories also exist, but to point out what a person "is" or where they "fit" is taboo. Here, it's out in the open. It makes me very uncomfortable when Irish people make these descriptions about people during conversation. But I wonder, if we all notice them and categorize people anyway, what does it matter if its internal or external. Don't we treat people differently because of that anyway? I don't know if there is a right or wrong way, but it's certainly something I've picked up upon and discussed with Jimmy.
I feel like I'm forgetting so much, but I think that's okay. At least I wrote :)
Today I'm going to the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Leary.. don't even try to sound that beast out) after some yoga and perhaps running. It's pretty rainy though, as usual.
I know I can't stay here, but I'm coming back. Dublin, you are amazing.
